Jesse Shumaker (1799-1859) children
I have been trying to determine the relationship of the Weems family of Attala Co., MS and the Jesse Shumaker family of Winston/Choctaw Co., MS. Three of Jesse's sons (Henry T., J. W., and Peter F.) left Mississippi in 1849 to go to Texas. They got stuck in Louisiana where Henry appears on the 1850 census in Rapides Parish. But Henry and Peter eventually went on to Texas where they are listed in Johnson Co. in 1860. J. W. was Dr. John Washington Shumaker who stayed in LA and is buried in the Beech Creek Cemetery in Winn Parish--Peter is also buried there, so he returned to LA after leaving TX.
Jesse, the father, was listed in Winston Co., MS in 1840 and 1850, but according to his father's Rev. War pension pay records, he had moved to Choctaw Co., MS by 1858. He must have died shortly thereafter and his widow Delila moved to Johnson Co., TX where she appears on the 1860 census and on the Confederate indigent list of 1864 in Johnson Co.
I got interested in this because I was trying to identify Clarinda C., the wife of James L. Weems of Attala Co. Her husband left her and their children after the Civil War and she moved to Winn Parish, LA about 1868. She is listed on the 1870 census there and in 1872 was a founding member of the Beech Creek Baptist Church in Winn Parish. On the 1870 census she is listed next to J. W. Shumaker's sister-in-law and not far from J. W. Shumaker. After 1872 Clarinda moved to Johnson Co., TX where she died in 1876. She is buried in the Buel Baptist Cemetery in Johnson Co. and buried next to her is a Willie T. Shumaker.
The Shumaker's caught my interest because Clarinda's daughter Alice married Henry H. Shumaker in 1877 in Hood Co., TX (he was the son of Henry T.). Clarinda's son Thomas Scott Weems married Sarah A. (Shumaker) Weatherford in Winn Psh, LA--she was the daughter of J. W. Shumaker. I also found a marriage of S. M. Shumaker to Martha J. Weems in 1883 in Johnson Co., TX. S. M. is Sylvester M., the youngest child of Jesse and Delila Shumaker. I'm not sure who Martha is--she is not a child of Clarinda, but could be (although the marriage license says Miss) the widow of Clarinda's son Edward W. Weems (who married Martha J. Witt in Crawford Co., AR in 1881).
Clarinda's moves parallel those of the Shumakers and the intermarriages suggest close social if not family ties.
Jesse Shumaker did have a daughter the right age to be Clarinda on the 1830 census in Fayette Co., AL and on the 1840 census in Winston Co., MS.
Does anyone have any more information on the children of Jesse Shumaker or any more clues? So far, from census and other records I have:
by first wife Ellen:
1. female Shumaker (b. 1820-1825, AL)
2. Henry Thomas Shumaker (May 29, 1826-Jul 7, 1889)
3. Mary Ann Elizabeth Shumaker (b. 1827/8) m. Zack Woodward
4. female Shumaker (b. 1825-1830--Clarinda? b. 1829)
5. Dr. John Washington Shumaker (1 Feb 1831-27 Nov 1908)
6. male Shumaker (b. 1830-1835)
7. female Shumaker (b. 1830-1835)
8. Sarah Shumaker (b. 1834, MS)
9. Peter F. Shumaker (16 Apr 1836-18 Jan 1914)
10. Martin Shumaker (b. 1839)
11. female Shumaker (b. 1835-1840)
by second wife Delila:
12. Nancy J. Shumaker (b. 1844)
13. James K. P. Shumaker (b. 1845)
14. George M. D. Shumaker (b. 1847)
15. David N. Shumaker (b. 1851)
16. Delila H. Shumaker (b. 1853)
17. Minerva A. Shumaker (b. 1854)
18. Sylvester M. Shumaker (b. 1856)
I would appreciate any help in sorting this out.
Guy Perry
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